Comments on: Ark. Town Under Fire For 24-Hour Curfew

Police Armed With Military Rifles Aggressively Question Residents In High-Crime Area

[whiskyrokkr]

Let this lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union out in the worst part of town @ 2am and see what he thinks then. Lawyers are scumbags

[libsluv2spit]

the ''drug dealers'' are preditory in nature..more money and power in small towns..

[libsluv2spit]

Because this style of law enforcement will be coming to a neighborhood near you.

Posted by curse914 at 08:02 PM : Aug 13, 2008
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that specific neighborhood is infested with drugs, crime and negligence because they followed your version of law enforcement..

the only people who should be afriad of the police are the criminals and the criminally minded..

[bhappy2-2]

I would have a very difficult time allowing myself to be subjected to such nonsense, especially since I own and know how to use firearms.

[shanev137]

Why is this news? Nobody cares about a little podunk town in backwater Arkansas.

[krannawitter]

email them!

http://www.helena-westhelenaar.com/aboutus.html

[e-mail] - Mayor Valley
[e-mail] - Eugene Johnson

[allurfears]

The police HAVE a reasonable cause to search provided to them by the city council and they are carrying out a legal directive.
Posted by cjw3cma at 06:27 PM : Aug 13, 2008
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You, sir, are completely uninformed and completely wrong. You are proposing that the government can issue a "General Warrant" to search any and all people. This is absolutely NOT a "legal directive" as you state. Thank GOD, the Constitution requires a warrant for search based on reasonable cause and that a warrant must issue only upon presenting evidence to a court of jurisdiction.

What YOU are proposing is so far from what the founding fathers wanted, that I wonder if you are an American, or you are just a uneducated product of our decrepit school system. Certainly you know nothing about the principles founding this country.

The founding fathers were VERY EXPLICIT about eliminating the kind of "General Warrant" you propose. They did so because the English issued general warrants that allowed the authorities to do as they pleased- just as you would want- to stop citizens at their whim and search and seize citizens without cause.

Again- The founders were diametrically opposed to allowing our government to act as under a "general warrant" You are just plain wrong and frighteningly un-American.

[deacon20081]

This sounds to much like Martial Law. I agree with the ACLU that the City Council is full of it. Can''t wait for the law suits to start. A city council may pass an ordinance, however it can not Pass Laws contrary to State or Federal Laws on the books.

[roachcrusher]

"As far as I''m concerned, at 3 o''clock in the morning, nobody has any business being on the street, except the law," Councilman Eugene "Red" Johnson said. "Anyone out at 3 o''clock shouldn''t be out on the street, unless you''re going to the hospital."

Mayor James Valley said. "The citizens deserve peace, that some infringement on constitutional rights is OK..."


Wow, they should be right at home in in Comnist China. Or I guess they are comfortable in Fascist USA under George Bush.

[babooph]

The world changes so fast-used to be only big city slums had the drug lifestyle!What happened?